It looks like it will come down to what Moose wants: Serie A football, or Chinese bank. The early signs were that Mousa Dembele was set to leave Tottenham Hotspur this summer and probably for Serie A. Reports have linked Moose with Juventus, Napoli, and Inter Milan as he seeks to end his career away from the Premier League, and have also suggested that Dembele’s agents were recently in Italy to begin talks with a few clubs while the player is in Russia for the World Cup.
But those reports might be premature. Two French outlets — France Football and radio station RMC — are now reporting that Tottenham has reached an “agreement in principle” with an unknown Chinese club for Dembele’s sale, and that Spurs would rather he head off to the ...